Pain Pleasure Quotes

• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

  Arnold Bennett

  Pain, Crazy, Mad

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

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• The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jan 03, 2015

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• Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Thinking, Government

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring ...”, p.1

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• Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Pain, Joy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Pain, Pleasure, Born

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• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Success, Pain, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1860). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.573

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• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Depression, God, Christian

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• Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  John Dryden

  Sweet, Pain, Treasure

  'Alexander's Feast' (1697) l. 57

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• Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Government, Two

  An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ch. 1 (1789)

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• Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Shadow, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Pain, Philosophical

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• The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Happiness, Pain

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

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• Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

  Rajneesh

  Pain, Remembrance, Forget

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.

  Danielle Cormack

  Pain, Joy, Sorrow

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• pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

  Frida Kahlo

  Pain, Struggle, Doorways

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• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Pain, Animal

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Pain, Speak

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• Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Pain, Luxury, Add

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• There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Pain, Color, Brain

  "Evolution of the Human Brain". Lecture by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1964.

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• At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Pain, Writing

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• Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Joy, Feelings

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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• This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sweet, Children, Pain

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